{"id":24919,"date":"2016-04-13T22:24:56","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T05:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=24919"},"modified":"2016-04-13T22:24:56","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T05:24:56","slug":"mohsen-torki-to-referee-tehran-derby-for-seventh-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/04\/13\/mohsen-torki-to-referee-tehran-derby-for-seventh-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohsen Torki to referee Tehran derby for seventh time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Mohsen Torki has been appointed to referee Friday\u2019s Tehran derby between Persepolis and Esteghlal in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Referees Committee of Iran\u2019s Football Federation announced on Wednesday that Torki will officiate the match.<\/p>\n<p>He will be assisted by Reza Sokhandan and Mohammad Reza Abolfazli in the derby.<\/p>\n<p>This is the seventh time Torki has been appointed as Tehran derby referee. In the previous six games Esteghlal has won twice while four matches finished with a draw.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal and Persepolis have played against each other 81 times, with Esteghlal winning 24 games, Persepolis taking 20 victories, and 37 matches ending in a draw.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal and Persepolis are second and third in Iran Professional League table respectively due to goal difference.<\/p>\n<p>The Tehran derby was chosen as the most important in Asia and the 22nd important derby in the world on June 2008 by World Soccer Magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Mohsen Torki has been appointed to referee Friday\u2019s Tehran derby between&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":24920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division"],"views":1448,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}